Thank goodness I had 2 daughters with no interest in sports. I wouldn't want them to spend 50+ years like I have waiting for the Jets to not suck.
I wish I was able to not let it ruin my day. It was easier when we were supposed to be terrible. The expectations that we were at least a playoff team has made it tough.
Yep! The first thing in managing those expectations is to decide for yourself whether they are realistic or not. Especially now with exposure to an unlimited number of self-proclaimed experts rather than a handful of newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media, anyone with a phone can be in your face every hour of every day. The thing is their exposure to what's going on inside the league or organization is no better than yours or mine when in the past the guys we went to for information were actually inside every day. You might have read three newspapers a day, Sports Illustrated on the weekend, watched the nightly news and listened to a radio station in the car but most of that was reporting with very little opinion or analysis. Now we have guys all over the world telling us what to believe, including one guy, often quoted here, who may be posting from his parents basement, claiming he "is one of the best analytical New York Jets minds in the world." We don't have to believe that or anything he says, we get to decide for ourselves who to believe. "Cautiously optimistic" is the safest way to maintain one's sanity while remaining a Jets fan. Let's face it, when even the professionals preface their pre-season forecasts with "If xxx stays healthy and the yyy unit comes together..." they're not giving us much. Week one power rankings from major players had the Jets anywhere from fifth place to twentieth - barring lightning strikes the next two months, they were all wrong. Getting a success starved fanbase to "wait and see" is like trying to get a man crawling through the desert to pass a cold keg of Peroni but it is how to manage irrational exuberance.
This Aaron Rodgers thing was always destined to fail. The fact that it's failing so spectacularly will hopefully teach Woody a lesson about these idiotic quick fixes with washed up, future HOF QB's. Enough already.
They were favored to win. Second time this season they lost a home game they were favored to win. 3-8 man woooooow. I remember after they had won their second game in a row New England on that Thursday night. How giddy Jets fans were how excited we were after we saw from Rodgers and the Jets that night. We thought that's how it was going to be. Then they lost that game to Denver, coach Saleh was fired soon after and here we are. Stinkin' 3-8.
I was glad they lost - the season is cooked and the last thing I want is them to win a few games and for the geniuses that run the team to think "wow we are starting to turn a corner/get this thing together" and not clear house in the offseason - I hope they lose every game from here on out if it means that they get rid of everyone and start over (sadly can't do the same with the players as well)
That's what's crazy about this season is how fast things flipped to bad and how the losses started stacking faster than you can count. I can't come to any conclusion other than these players have completely quit on Ullbrich.
the sad thing is how close this team has been to having a decent season - there are least 4 games that the Jets absolutely could have and should have won in which case we would be 7-4 and right in the mix (I know that cliché of "you are who your record says you are") but it is nuts how close this team was to having a good year instead of the utter disaster it has become.
Well put my man. While I don't approach you on the age component, I've been watching for a very long time...decades. I guess it was about 2 weeks ago, I had a "sit down" with myself. Basically, I've decided that football, in general, isn't enough of a factor in my life to get upset over it anymore. It's enlightening. Every once in a while I'll have a "pop up" of anger but it's getting less and less as the weeks go on. As far as the NY Jets are concerned, I'm done investing any kind of time in the team. I'll keep a "side eye" on them and I'll forever be a TGG'er and will pop in from time to time to talk "turkey" so to speak but this team...this ownership group, hasn't had the fans in mind for a very long time. They operate to have their Ego's massaged. Everything Wood-RUFF does centers around having his ass kissed and for people to pound him on the back and tell him how "good" he is. These people aren't serious about football. It's a "talking point" at their weekly visit to the country club. He has built an environment where no self respecting coach will EVER come to the organization. It will be a long, very long, list of no experience newbies or also ran's looking for that last paycheck on their way out of the league. Someone once said, "There are only 32 of these jobs so they are coveted. That's true, there will always be someone wanting to coach in the NFL. However, just like any other occupation in the world, there are A coaches and D coaches...the A-level coaches won't be coming to the Jets. Only D and D-. Anywho...that's a lot of words to waste describing something all of you live on a weekly basis. Not telling anyone here something they don't know. I simply can't take it anymore. It's one thing to lose but to champion losing is a bridge too far even for me. If Wood-RUFF Johnson were actually giving two shits about winning he would do something different. He doesn't change, hasn't changed and, for all intents and purposes, looks like he won't be changing any time soon. Bringing Adams in here proves that So, time for me to tell the NY Jets that I'm going to put as much time and effort into being a fan of their team as they are in fielding a winning organization from top to bottom.
There's a point every year where you get checked out emotionally because it doesn't matter. We were there after last week's game. I had tickets to last week's game but after we lost to New England, I knew it was over so I got all my money back on the tickets. Never buying tickets again until we know the games matter in season. Redzone only. Watch the other teams and at least you see all the good finishes.
They definitely pulled me in more with the Rodgers signing, and all the hype. The defense the past 2 years really had me fooled that when they got him back the team would be like something we haven’t seen in a long time. Before that, after decades I had kind of tuned out. And after this , I will tune out even more. I get disappointed for an hour after a game, then I don’t give a shit anymore. Same old jets, is one of the most true statements I have encountered in my life. I get much more disappointed when the Yankees lose.
I think it's more about the referee crew than team discipline. I have seen games where teams are playing clean and get 15 flags, it's totally inconsistent. I've watched more non-Jets football than recent years because I'm stealing it and it feels good. Fuck the fake ass NFL.
